Senior Project Manager

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R0346961Location: Ottawa, CanadaIn fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.Ottawa, ON., (CAN.), HybridPosition SummaryThales has a vacancy for a Senior Project Manager (Internal PM) who is accountable for the integrated execution, governance, performance management, and operational effectiveness of the AJISS Program. Acting on behalf of the Program Manager, the Internal PM provides leadership, coordination, and oversight across all AJISS delivery functions, ensuring alignment of schedule, cost, risk, resource, quality, contractual, and operational objectives across the program. The Internal PM serves as the operational integrator for the AJISS Program and provides performance oversight across all major delivery functions and control accounts, exercising delegated authority from the Program Manager to drive program outcomes.
The AJISS Internal PM has a central position within the AJISS Program to ensure the operational performance of the AJISS team composed of Deputy Program Managers, Service Delivery Managers, and the Chief Engineer, supported by the Project Management Office, Integrated Management Office (IMO), and support functions such as Finance and Legal & Contracts. This requires project management expertise, exceptional relationship management, and highly developed networking and influencing skills. This role is accountable for coordinating and directing the activities of senior functional leaders across the AJISS Program, ensuring alignment to program objectives and performance commitments.
The Senior Project Manager carries out an integral leadership role and is responsible and accountable for maintaining program governance, business rhythm, and execution effectiveness to ensure successful delivery of program objectives. The role demands effective stakeholder management and engagement skills, combined with broad operational and business expertise, to ensure Thales achieves schedule, cost, scope, quality, and customer performance requirements. The ability to lead and motivate a cross-functional integrated team is critical to success.
The AJISS Internal PM reports directly to the Program Manager, AJISS, and oversees the performance of all AJISS control accounts, many of which are managed by Senior Project Managers and Project Managers. The role supports solution delivery and represents the program at customer-level meetings as required by the Program Manager.Regulatory Compliance RequirementThis position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List and/or the US the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access.Key Areas of ResponsibilityThe AJISS Internal PM will be required to:
* Acts as the delegated authority of the Program Manager for day-to-day program execution and governance activities, ensuring consistent decision-making, issue resolution, and performance management across all AJISS delivery functions.
* Maintain the schedule and cost baseline of the Project with PMO and Finance support.
* Establish the mechanisms and governance to drive the project rhythm, schedule and cost control with PMO and Finance support.
* Manage the project schedule using critical path analysis and clarification of dependencies.
* Leads and influences a cross-functional matrix organization consisting of Deputy Program Managers, Service Delivery Managers, Chief Engineers, PMO resources, Finance, Legal & Contracts, Supply Chain, and Operational teams across Thales.
* Lead the Project team to achieve the schedule, scope, quality, and cost goals. Provides direction and priorities to AJISS leadership team members.
* Chairs supervisory reviews of all control accounts / work packages ensuring strong governance, reporting and resolution of blockers and makes arbitrations and decisions based on Program Manager, AJISS delegation.
* Exercises delegated authority from the Program Manager to make operational, financial, resource allocation, schedule prioritization, and risk management decisions impacting program performance.
* Provides executive-level reporting and recommendations to the Program Manager and senior leadership regarding program health, operational performance, strategic risks, contract execution, and achievement of business objectives.
* Highlights any key issues and risks requiring management attention. Ensures that resource issues are managed at the right level and urgency. Initiates, and sometimes leads, spec